Jane and Steve read the weather well and took a day off to Murcia. The rest of us hung around the airfield in hope.

Unfortunatly the weather was much cooler.  Although pleasant the thermals didnt pop, Ian and Keith flying the Duo as sniffers only managed to scrape 20mins.  The only other enthusiastic pilot, Paul won the day by declining to launch and saving himself the cost of a tow.  We retired to drink beer!

Tonight we are out at the Bar Juan tapas bar in Ontur.

Weather blue, inversion was lower at around 6500ft, however there were standing blue thermals with tight cores of up to 8knts.  Typical Spanish weather however the blue thermals made cross country difficult for us Brits.  Take offs and landings were from the top end of the airfield, interesting landing downhill!

Stats: 6flts 8hrs 38mins, average 1hr 26mins.  Longest flight Alex in LS4 3hrs 38mins.  Keith drew the short straw launching at the end of the day as the weather collapsed and he only got 12mins.

Evening - Jane organised an excellent Spanish Barbeque which was the best wé·ve ever had at Ontur.

Weather was good again, and following an excellent breakfast (thanks to our chefs Paul, Keith and Jane), we prepeared for a good days soaring.  Today proved slightly more stable but still good thermals with cloudbase of 7000ft. 

Both Keith (2hrs 30) and Paul (1hrs 43) reaquainted themselves with the  LS4s and both had excellent soaring flights but didn't venture too far.  Jan flew the Astir  for 1hr 36 then later the LS4 for nearly 2 hours clocking up 100km.  Alex flew the LS4 later for 1hr 29.

After an hour and a half in the Duo, Steve made his first solo on site in the Astir clocking up another 1hr 25.  Meanwhile, Tony had his first flight of the week in the Duo with Ian.

Stats: 8 flights, 15hrs 18mins.  Average 1hr 55min. Longest Flight Tony and Ian 3hrs 17mins in the Duo. A small amount of XC flying totalling 370km. 

This evening we met up at Fuente for tapas and bacon and eggs (!!!) in the Bar Capri, plus some liquid refreshment, of course - luckily it was only a short stagger home for those of us staying in the nearby  hotel!